That was nice
Well being Honest to every one here.
Some of you, know that not matter where you are going always you will find good and bad people, by the Tourist side and by the hotel worker side, as what I experieced working and also visitting some hotels.
Let me start when I was working at the Hotel Resort, I saw many kind of tourist from the good untill the worse one. The good ones realized that they were in one 3 world country and that is normal to have mosquitos in the island also that rain is normal in the DR. This kind of client is the one that you feel like talking to that person also explaing about interesting places that this person should visit and look at our geography usually this client is interested to lear about Dominican culture, normaly you start a friendship with that person and keep in touch, I remenber that I met a family from Manitoba, Winnipeg they were amazing people, I kept in touch to those people via email I can say with proud that I was not expecting nothing from those people just the friendship, I did explaing that my girlfriend is Canadian wich one I got to know her before work at the hotel field, I promised to that family if one day I go to Canada I will visit them. They always said that they will teach me hockey if I teach them how to play baseball, anyways after one week when I came to Canada I called them to say hi! They were surprise about her that I was here one of the kids who is 14 years old come to Toronto to visit his uncle we had a great time.
Other guest, was a guy 26 years old he work for a gym in Canada, he was in Punta Cana for 3 weeks he was very nice and honest since I meet this guy, first than every thing he came to the Hotel having his clothes in 2 garbage bags I told him, its not my business to know but did you come from Canada like that. he told me that some body toke his lugage and money. Then I help him with the price of the hotel and were to find a cheap lugage that he can afford to pay with credit card anyway I kept his email until I came to Canada we some times go out here in Canada and always he get for me a free pass to go to his Gym.
The Bad side of some tourist.
Some of them think that still we have slave in the Dominican Rep, also some client think that the reason that they paid a lot of money for the vacation they think that they bought the employees also because is raining you have to do some thing for that. They get cranky and think that this is employees responsability the weather because they came from so far to play golf or whatever.
Many compleins about getting sick from the food, of course you will get sick if they act some times that they have to finish all the food from the hotel in one week the same thing with the drink even worse if they go to the casino and loss all the money then they said "This is the worse hotel I ever being"
I got some client that try to leave the Hotel with out paid some bills that I had to call the security then the police. Also problem with some client that want to bring prostitutes to the Hotel and some woman trying to bring sankies.
Client that after get a huge bill in phone calls then they said that they did not make it but after some investigation then the hotel find out the client was calling some of his friends.
Ok I think this is enought about this side.
Now about hotel worker,
This is my question, if one animation guy say to you "I love you" in 3 day of you stay at the Hotel, would you believe that ? thats one of the bad part wich one is a different thread. Most of the problem that we read here in DR1 about hotel worker stuff just guess what department are those guy working.
"Animation" some are good guys I know but most are problem. I never heard about maid lady giving problem or the garden guys and some other guys.
Also that the security guys some of them are jerks.
This is all I was living and seing for 2 years there is more but would be for next time.......
Homer
brian richards said:
Well while we were Holidaying in the DR, we became friendly with quite a few of the resort workers. One was a sweeper who had holes in his trousers and shoes falling off his feet. So I gave him a pair of my chinos trousers and my leather sandels, only wore them both once, the night before. Then I realised that I forgot to check the pockets, and I had left 1700 pesos in the back pocket. When I spoke to him again I told him what I had done, I expected him to say there wasnt anything in the pockets. He didnt he told me to wait there he would go and get it for me and he would give it back, we told him to keep it.
Then there is this other resort worker, good looking guy, not going to say who he is. But we became friendly with him. He told us how he was saving hard to come to the UK to get married, my good lady gave him a ?20 note telling him to spend it on arrival to the uk on getting something to eat. We was told that he probably tells everybody that story to get money. Well we have just heard he is in the UK, Getting married. So all though you have to have your wits about you its not all of them telling you a yarn to get your money. We are going to try and find him in the UK just to make sure he is ok.
But I tell you what did upset us is the way most of the tourists treated the resort workers, no please, no thank you, we want, with a we have paid for you to wait on us attitude. How about some respect for the people who go out of their way to ensure you have a supurb vacation. Mind you it wasnt all tourists.
I did yell but you know what it never did work. I could get them to do things by explaining the reasons why they couldn't do this and that. I remember once when my son was around 16 he came home and I can't remember why I did it but in anger I started to complain in a very loud voice. He just looked at me and said in a very calm voice, Mom did you have a bad day? And walked away.